Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788609a6f05d7051…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 01:52:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5fb5e84ebb1a170b712809b6736ba3fc SHA-1: 628ea1df10ebabb0b5463c5185fd1c2555535c5a SHA-256: 788609a6f05d7051f00b7eef1d5426759aa9ae51c25d652fc92aa0366c6a8812
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users through a network of potentially malicious sites, possibly for phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9852

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40eda5cgt2cprndakn7603c97t/8185234819.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jekomifarusukibobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/34880840835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/togegedoxumerume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/96152226860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/10573219074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdio.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/17087381819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/69031357757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/68365439722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/97542434051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50ca2e5155eb82631b81d2804a8b89ae/58748723608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecc799bef5b---80574600567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849b3c1cd7ad1d92352a077a3dd5f68d/75641859320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambanhang247.com/upload/files/pukarigeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/46505171951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/dugijiguzanasirodexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/nubamidirarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/64767013214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/54418296724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72838440396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sg886kvbq245u2ituc8e6qu17/sijibovijenexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/pixitabixaxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/felikiwototowivirita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebestpearsonfamily.com/clients/e/e6/e6a49a9b6fa3fb0349b1957bd02e8b5b/File/73682090212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/labomapitevovazisama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a165e3965aba5d3f1df67b789674f49/nufikaniwoveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e22139188802f017a6820723e8bf426/badepifodivimoterugenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=one+benefit+of+centrally+planned+economyPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015d2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D2A 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 2032e6281227edbe58c267e458c3aceecfea63c501db5871a3816d801e4572c3
font_01_sfnt_off00017628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17628 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 228ec481b47326c153548d45b9d0b8dc379c1dbf63890f809fb61d72df9f2a0e
font_02_sfnt_off0001a3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1